![]() ![]() ![]() The real life Sokolov was a tattooist at Auschwitz, and he met Gita Furman there. What’s most extraordinary about this unlikely love story is that it’s mostly true. In the United States alone, there are half a million copies in print, and the book just hit No. Written by first-time author Heather Morris, based here in Melbourne, Australia, the book has seemingly come out of nowhere to be translated into 17 languages, with rights sold in 43 countries. At the camp, Sokolov met a Slovakian girl, and they fell in love. MELBOURNE, Australia - “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” a novel published in the United States by HarperCollins in September, tells the extraordinary tale of Lali Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, and forced to tattoo numbers onto the arms of thousands of incoming prisoners. ![]()
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